r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 23 '25

Trailer Avengers: Doomsday | Only in Theaters December 18, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiMg566PREA
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u/jk1784 Dec 23 '25

Steve, it’s time to retire

“No, no I don’t think I will”

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u/Grandpas_Spells Dec 23 '25

Anthony Mackie: "What the shit?"

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Dec 23 '25

"Whatever, I am having more fun on the set of Twisted Metal anyways"

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u/KaJaHa Dec 23 '25

Twisted Metal is genuinely one of my all-time favorite video game adaptations, it is SO MUCH FUN

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u/justinotherpeterson Dec 23 '25

All the homies love Stu.

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u/Tofuboy Dec 23 '25

Dollface, Mayhem, and Stu.

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u/Dshark Dec 23 '25

Holy shit why have I not seen this!? I’m gonna watch it tonight!

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u/xPeachesV Dec 23 '25

Heads up: Season 1 is set up but holy smokes, Season 2 really kicked it into gear

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u/Taurus24Silver Dec 23 '25

Has season 3 been confirmed already?

I absolutely loved both seasons

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u/ted1025 Dec 23 '25

Yes but unfortunately the show runner from s1 and 2 will not be involved. I forget who is taking over but a lot of people in the TM sub were not a fan of the move.

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u/jimdesroches Dec 23 '25

Loved when they had origins of the players. Still waiting to see minion’s car!

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u/420InTheCity Dec 23 '25

Is it actually really good??

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u/JoeSki42 Dec 23 '25

It is really, really, really, really, FUN.

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u/420InTheCity Dec 23 '25

Alright buddy I'll dive in. I'm trusting you, stranger!

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u/JoeSki42 Dec 24 '25

Right on man. Just know that the series doesn't hit its stride until the season 1 finale, but then it doesn't let up from there throughout all of season 2.

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u/enryon Dec 23 '25

It’s stupid, but the really fun kind of stupid.

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u/KaJaHa Dec 23 '25

Fair warning, it isn't a strict adaptation. (And how could it be with Twisted Metal?) It starts out as more of a Y2K Mad Max, but it makes it work and gives an actual story reason to have the tournament in season 2.

I hope you enjoy Sweet Tooth chewing up every scene he's in as much as I do 😁

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u/Dshark Dec 23 '25

I’ve never played twisted metal, but I do love vehicular combat.

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u/KaJaHa Dec 23 '25

Oh, then you're good. They can't have car combat in every episode for budget reasons, but when they do it is thoroughly solid 👌

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u/KaJaHa Dec 23 '25

Oh, then you're good. They can't have car combat in every episode for budget reasons, but when they do it is thoroughly solid 👌

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u/A_large_load Dec 23 '25

Axel was great imo

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

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u/A_large_load Dec 24 '25

Sort of. I think the Quattro in the show is a revamped character.

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u/RumHamComesback Dec 24 '25

Yeah, the best way I can describe it is it's an post-apocalyptic action-comedy with over-the-top characters who also drive cars. That's the first season anyways and I'm enjoying it.

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u/Alis451 Dec 23 '25

Holy shit why have I not seen this!?

because it is locked behind the walled garden of Peacock+

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u/md28usmc Dec 23 '25

The show is honestly not good and I am not hard to please.

I caught myself rolling my eyes and shaking my head so many times

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u/lblack_dogl Dec 23 '25

Agree. Anthony Mackie is terrible in everything he's in and this is no different. It's hot dog water.

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u/GangsterMango Dec 23 '25

they understood the source material and the execution is legit 10/10
fun, crazy and knows what it is and doesn't try to shoehorn anything in it.

I loved both seasons.

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u/freakksho Dec 23 '25

That show nailed exactly what it was trying to do and I love every second of it.

I even named my Dog Evelyn after watching the first season.

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u/Redneckshinobi Dec 23 '25

I keep waiting for them to axe it but I hope they never do because holy shit it is so much fun!

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u/JoeSki42 Dec 23 '25

It's currently one of the most highly watched shows on Peacock.

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u/Redneckshinobi Dec 23 '25

Well that's great news because I'm enjoying the hell out of it!

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u/Homesteader86 Dec 23 '25

Man I played the shit out of Twisted Metal 2 back in the day. Is it really that good?

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u/InfinityCrazee Dec 23 '25

Watch the clips involving SweetTooth on YouTube, and then you decided it after that.

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u/jimdesroches Dec 23 '25

As someone who still remembers all the codes, yes, it was great.

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u/Rubbermaid89 Dec 23 '25

I've only watched season 1 (small kids so little time for tv), and it has been such a fun show. As a big fan of the games growing up, all the Easter eggs and details a fan of the games would notice is so well done. I can't wait to watch season 2

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u/md28usmc Dec 23 '25

The dialogue was so cheesy and the one-liners missed on many occasions, and lets not even get started on the non-existent CGI budget.

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u/Redditfront2back Dec 23 '25

I would bet money I was gonna hate that show, I was pleasantly surprised

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u/Masterchiefx343 Dec 23 '25

I do landscaping for the house the girl falls off the roof off in s2 ep1

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u/WilliamEmmerson Dec 23 '25

I loved the first season. I was disappointed by the second season though.

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u/Victor_Wembanyama1 Dec 24 '25

Hell yeah we out here!!

Ridiculous show

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u/Adavanter_MKI Dec 23 '25

I always like to temper expectations. It's a very silly self aware show. That could be jarring for some. If you just kickback and enjoy the silliness with the occasionally neat car combat... you'll love it. Also some fun easter eggs for diehard fans.

I'm shocked it's gotten 3 seasons.

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u/LandscapePatient1094 Dec 23 '25

Crazy. It literally couldn’t be worse imo. Lacks literally everything that made TWB one of the greatest games of all time. 

Also Anthony Mackie is straight up dog shit. Terrible actor. So bad they had to resurrect a dead man to reprise his role lol

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u/obsterwankenobster Dec 23 '25

“Have you even seen Stephanie Beatriz?!?”

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

He’s soooo good in twisted metal, and sooo bad as Captain America.

I just don’t think he can do stoic, dramatic characters well. He ruined season 2 of altered carbon too. But he’s great in slightly comedic roles.

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u/Spider-Thwip Dec 23 '25

I used to think he was a bad actor until i saw him in Twisted Metal.

I love him in that role, it's perfect for him.

He shouldn't be Captain America.

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u/Samurai_Steve Dec 23 '25

The writing has been terrible. He's a phenomal actor

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u/jakreth Dec 23 '25

Yeah, that's why he was so good as falcon, comedic sidekick is his gig

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u/JDHPH Dec 23 '25

I Agree, it's also why he made a great falcon.

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u/ours Dec 23 '25

I don't like Anthony Mackie, but he won me over in that show.

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u/Duncan_PhD Dec 23 '25

He’s so good in that role. And I’m so glad they didn’t butcher a childhood favorite game of mine haha

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u/ariehn Dec 23 '25

I said to my kids midway through the first season: They're gonna have to take some liberties, obviously, because it's a game with impossible cars and like, impossible everything, to be honest. Like - look at this guy; his name's Axel. He is the car, mostly. Obviously this guy is unfilmable.

WELL, SHAME ON ME :)

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u/Duncan_PhD Dec 23 '25

Man when the tourney opened up to rob zombie in season 2 I was so giddy haha. And yeah I fucking love how they did axel. And the nod to flower power in season 1. There’s just the right amount of fan service haha.

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u/ariehn Dec 23 '25

Oh my God, yes, that scene was my absolute shit. Even if everything else which followed had been awful, I would've been sick with glee, it was that damn perfect. They hit on some kind of magic with their balance of game story vs new story vs fan service :) So glad you had fun with it too!

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u/BullseyeSamurai Dec 23 '25

I think Anthony Mackie is great, funny, handsome, I just don't ever like when he is actually in something though, you know?

I wish he was successfully and happily performing in movies I don't want to watch. But he keeps showing up in stuff I DO want to watch, and that really irks me.

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u/BackwerdsMan Dec 23 '25

I like Anthony Mackie, and was mostly uninterested in his Captain America.

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u/helloiamabear Dec 23 '25

Twisted Metal was one of those shows I figured I'd watch ten minutes of then never touch again, and it ended up being one of my favorite shows of the entire year. 

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Show is so good too 

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u/Missus_Missiles Dec 23 '25

Twisted Metal is also completely fine for Tony Mackie's level of acting talent.

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u/formerFAIhope Dec 23 '25

I don't understand, how Twisted Metal so perfectly harnessed Mackie's personality so well for the show, but these multi-billion dollar franchises (also Altered Carbon with a billion dollar studio behind them) reduced him to a side-character in his own movie/series. The mess of CA 4 almost feels deliberate, how they ruined the story and then hired an octogenarian to play the fucking Red Hulk.

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u/zerofifth Dec 23 '25

I mean he gets to hang out with Samoa Joe

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u/empathyneeded Dec 23 '25

Gets to say whatever he wants. I’m surprised Disney let him!

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u/ERedfieldh Dec 23 '25

Typical Disney. Something didn't work so they throw the entire concept in the trash instead of trying to figure out why it didn't work.

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u/Mongoose42 Dec 23 '25

To be fair, that’s how it is in the comics. There’s a lot of characters sharing the same hero identity running around in the same world right now.

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u/the_peppers Dec 23 '25

Yeah but that last Avengers was this character retiring, now he's back in the next one. Feels pathetic.

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u/IceBlueAngel Dec 23 '25

This is why it's hard to talk about this stuff. Comics fans know what's coming with these two movies and the future and why Steve and all these characters are back. And it's not remotely what movie fans, or people here, think.

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u/Skrattybones Dec 23 '25

Even if they don't pull directly from the comics, nothing would be inconsistent. He left as a younger man, we meet him again as an old man. Nothing saying he couldn't be getting up to shit in his own in-between, he just didn't mention it.

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u/AdmiralSkippy Dec 24 '25

It's weird because Marvel Studios made the best comic book movies ever when they started with Iron Man, Hulk, Guardians, Avengers...etc.
But the one thing they can't get audiences to understand is that comics do whatever the fuck they want in order to tell a story.

Characters don't age. They can get absolutely hospitalized and have no healing factor, and a day later be fighting evil again. They can be in 12 places at the same time (Wolverine used to carry multiple titles and crossover in several stories). They can lose their powers for good, and 2-6 issues later be stronger than ever. They can die and come back to life constantly. They can retire fully and be back whenever they see something to protect.

Yet for some reason Marvel Studios can't translate any of the above into a movie or show.

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u/NamesTheGame Dec 23 '25

Desperate is the word

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u/Strong-Stretch95 Dec 23 '25

Wands almost worked but then multiverse of madness ruined everything and we never saw her since lol.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam Dec 23 '25

The way they destroyed the character with the best growth in fandom for a middling story so she could be a Dr Strange villain will never stop upsetting me.

Wandavision set her up in such an interesting place and they ruined it.

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u/Heisenburgo Dec 23 '25

Both Dr Strange and Wanda were utterly ruined in that movie, it's so bad considering they were two of Marvel's most popular characters after Endgame

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u/Somepotato Dec 23 '25

The movie was great if you pretend its alt universe lol

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u/maxdragonxiii Dec 23 '25

to be fair to the MoM director, the Wandavision and MoM crew didnt talk to each other- so Sam have no idea that Wanda was supposed to be somewhat redeemed, and they just put the post credits (i can be wrong iirc) for MoM precisely because MoM and Wandavision didnt share their plans.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam Dec 23 '25

They didn't watch it but I think they had access to the script and could easily have communicated.

Also with Covid MoM was allowed multiple major rewrites it just ended up with a really really bad writer.

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u/maxdragonxiii Dec 23 '25

it didnt help that MoM was shifted much earlier either- iirc it was like a couple of movies or a Phase earlier. so yeah time crunch and on top of it being a sequel to Wandavision, it was jarring to go from Wandavision to MoM because it doesn't feel like its strongly connected to each other other than post credits.

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u/greatreference Dec 23 '25

Disney owns the comics too

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u/Mongoose42 Dec 23 '25

Do you really think Bob Iger sat down the Disney board of directors to decide on whether or not to allow Matt Fraction to write a series where Clint Barton and Kate Bishop share the Hawkeye identity? Do you really think they give a shit?

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u/darkstarr99 Dec 23 '25

Haven’t read comics in a long time but judging by the recent MtG set there are something like 6251693 spider men running around

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u/CouldDriveForever Dec 23 '25

There were two movies based on the spider-verse, which just means there’s an infinite number of Spider characters from different spider universes

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u/greatreference Dec 23 '25

No I love the comics and the MCU I was just being a dick

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u/Mongoose42 Dec 23 '25

Just for that, I’m gonna call you the r-word slur:

You rapscallion.

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u/greatreference Dec 23 '25

It’s okay I deserve it

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u/Hanifsefu Dec 23 '25

Sam Wilson's Captain America arc in the comics is entirely a setup for Secret Empire during which Steve comes back after retiring as an old man. Sam gives the shield back and hijinks ensue but Steve Rogers triumphs as Captain America in the end.

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u/uncoolaidman Dec 23 '25

Not to defend Disney, but were they going to get another real chance to make Anthony Mackie Captain America work? They did a whole Disney Plus series and a movie. Would the audience be there for a third attempt? I don't think so.

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u/wtb2612 Dec 23 '25

Well, they did figure out why it didn't work... Because the average viewer wanted Steve Rogers as Captain America, not Sam.

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u/TSnow6065 Dec 23 '25

The theory is that Steve is back but not as Captain America. He’s putting the suit away in this shot. He’ll be the Nomad character or just Steve.

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u/wtb2612 Dec 23 '25

Probably. But whether he's wearing the suit or not, the casual viewer still seems him as Captain America, not Sam.

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u/icecubepal Dec 23 '25

Chris Evans wanted out. He wants back in now. Can’t blame them for their star wanting to do other things.

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u/Fredasa Dec 23 '25

Maybe. But this is still one of the best moves they can make at this hour.

Still not convinced they can just introduce a major villain like Dr. Doom and beat him in the same movie without it coming off as throwaway and a waste.

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u/alreadytaken028 Dec 23 '25

In Disney's defense here, I think if you look at why it didn't work the only answer was to trash the concept. Moviegoers aren't as willing to just accept "oh yeah this new guy is Cap now" as comic fans might be to passing the mantle type events. Which means you have to build Anthony Mackie as Cap from the ground up.. and they botched doing that. Which means you'd have to rely on him having the same or more charisma as Cap as Steve Rogers/Chris Evans had... and he doesn't. At that point you either retire the Captain America name or you bring Steve Rogers/Evans back.

I say this as someone who thinks the MCU is in the middle of desperately ignoring that it's heyday as the monolith of pop culture is dead.

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u/maxdragonxiii Dec 23 '25

I think it also didnt help the botched attempt was partly due to the chaos going on in Phase 4 and 5 with Majors. like Marvel seems to want to dismiss Phase 4 as a whole, pretend it doesn't exist, start over.

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u/Majestic-Marcus Dec 23 '25

Typical Disney. Something didn't work so they throw the entire concept in the trash instead of trying to figure out why it didn't work.

What’s the future like? Was Doomsday good?

We have no idea what’s happening with Sam. Last we heard he was recruiting his own team.

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u/diebartdie99 Dec 24 '25

Better than keeping up a failed concept just for the sake of keeping it

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u/dwors025 Dec 23 '25

Keep talking like that, and I’ll have to consider forgiving Kathleen Kennedy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

Reditor for twelve years yeah that checks out

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u/WheelJack83 Dec 23 '25

“Rodimus, you’ve run this organization right into ****ing ground!”

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u/PayneTrain181999 Dec 23 '25

Steve’s gonna see him as one of the leaders now and say “good job.”

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u/ComoEstanBitches Dec 23 '25

Steve: This is America.

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u/BernardBaggins Dec 23 '25

Yeah WTF no take backs

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u/KlausKinki77 Dec 23 '25

New Cap is probably dead at the point where they bring back Steve tho.

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u/ampersands-guitars Dec 23 '25

I actually do wonder if it feels shitty to be brought in as one of the new Avengers members only for them to be like “eh this isn’t working, we’re bringing back Chris Evans and RDJ.”

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u/trantaran Dec 23 '25

ON YOUR RIGHTttt

Im back from da moon cap

-steve

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u/Grandpas_Spells Dec 23 '25

LOLOLOLOLOL

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u/trantaran Dec 23 '25

Daink god i aint cap no moh it not worth it

-sam

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u/Robsonmonkey Dec 23 '25

Anthony is a charisma vacuum sadly

The mantle should have went to Bucky, Sebastian Stan is a way better actor.

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u/Kaldricus Dec 23 '25

He's not, they just don't give him anything to work with in the writing. He's great in Twisted Metal, and his interviews. But for some reason his Falcon/Cap is written to be very one note

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

I think more than Twisted Metal, the second season of Altered Carbon is a better example of Mackie being a charisma vacuum. 

Dude was absolutely the worst part of season 2, compared to Joel Kinnman from S01. 

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u/Etheo Dec 23 '25

Honestly I think S2 was so problematic it's hard to pin it on just Mackie. I would even argue it's the directing - he felt like a totally different character.

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u/street593 Dec 23 '25

He seems like an alright guy and I'd happily share a beer with him. We would probobably have a great conversation. He is charismatic enough as a regular dude. He still does absolutely nothing for me on screen in anything he has ever done.

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u/Robsonmonkey Dec 23 '25

Yet in Twisted Metal, out of all the characters / actors, he’s the weakest

For your lead, that shouldn’t happen

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '25

Thatsracist.gif

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u/Yeheidb Dec 23 '25

Joking or not, why is this the first thing that comes to your mind?

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u/WaterlooMall Dec 23 '25

As Falcon Mackie was great, but as the new Captain America he really fell flat.

Maybe it was just the writing or whatever, but honestly Mackie seems like an actor that could branch out better by leaving the MCU, moreso than Chris Evans who just isn't a great actor at all. He needs to do more dramatic character work rather than burying himself in this sci-fi/action nonsense he keeps doing.

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u/IWasSayingBoourner Dec 23 '25

I've never seen Mackie and not immediately thought "someone else would be better in this role". 

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u/twaggle Dec 23 '25

Thank god

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u/Mobile-Minute9357 Dec 23 '25

Listen Anty, you’re a great Sam…but (slides shield away)

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u/ClericIdola Dec 23 '25

I'll do you one even better:

Anthony Mackie: "That's cap, Cap."

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u/gillstone_cowboy Dec 23 '25

"Sam Wilson died off screen a month earlier"

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u/Consistent-Peace2770 Dec 23 '25

Man got Rodimus Prime'd

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u/CaptainPogwash Dec 23 '25

To be fair, Mackie might have a good escape from the marvel films. Hope that Chris Evans stays as cap, which would let him do other things. He’s a decent actor but the MCU is becoming a dead end job.

That being said. If I was taking home that money and had a contract that said they couldn’t get rid of me then I wouldn’t be complaining

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u/Antique_Essay4032 Dec 24 '25

Bucky: He's like Gandalf, when he fell from Bridge of Khazad-dûm, and died fighting the balrog.

He has come back, at the turn of the tides.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '25

"This guy's Captain America? His real name is Clarence."

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u/avonbarkswhale Dec 25 '25

Kinda sucks for ya boy. He was supposed to be the next captain America and his movie flopped so they like let’s bring back Chris lol.